The Ants of Africa
Genus Pyramica
Pyramica (Smithistruma) impidora (Bolton)

Pyramica (Smithistruma) impidora (Bolton)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Ivory Coast (Smithistruma impidora sp. n., Bolton, 1983: 294, illustrated, full-face view, worker), collected at Abidjan, Banco National Park, in a dead trunk, in primary forest, by I. Löbl, 3.iii.1977); holotype worker and 2 paratype workers - see below .


{Pyramica (Smithistruma) impidora}Bolton's description (1983) is at {original description}.


{Pyramica (Smithistruma) impidora}WORKER - TL 2.1-2.2 mm; flattened head and lacking specialised pilosity, other than a transverse band of suborbicular hairs between the vertex and occipital margin; colour uniform light brown.

The photomontage of the holotype is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0102547.

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